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Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009 - Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: That is a fair approach. People who are running tight operations should not find that they are being charged the same as people who are being more risky. The wider point I raised concerns the Minister's view that there is a risk that one of the problems inhibiting the availability of credit at the moment is that regulators are moving towards taking a fairly tight view of things. I could...

Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009 - Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: I agree with the Minister's attempt to grope towards a fair balance. There is no doubt that the credit unions have had much lower loan to deposit ratios and would be less risky in that sense, so they should qualify for a lower percentage charge. I hope that when the Minister scrutinises the matter, he can come to that view. Like him, I have concerns that some credit unions may not be...

Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009 - Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: I understand this is a technical amendment. However, section 8 provides for the Central Fund repaying the Central Bank within three months while the deposit fund makes up to the Central Fund this amount. How will this unfold? Will it become a premium charge against all the institutions, other than the one that failed or caused the payment to be made? Would it be a recoupment from that...

Financial Services (Deposit Guarantee Scheme) Bill 2009 - Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: The Minister may not be correct in claiming it is up to the Minister in the future. Section 8(3) states, "the Minister shall determine the period over which the payment required ... is to be made". It does not, however, state he or she can decide the rules at that point. The Minister does not have discretion in deciding how the share will be determined. I presume it will be the Central...

Written Answers — Information Society Fund: Information Society Fund (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Finance the value of the information society fund annually since 2000; the number and names of projects which have benefited from it since 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24090/09]

Written Answers — e-Government Report: e-Government Report (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 80: To ask the Minister for Finance if the recommendations identified in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on e-Government have been put into action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24183/09]

Written Answers — e-Government Report: e-Government Report (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 81: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of services that are available to the public through the reach and broker system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24184/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (17 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will provide for flexibility on the age limit for the new pre-school support scheme when a child has had only limited access to pre-school and there are reasons for the child not progressing directly to primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23927/09]

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: On that issue, I should like to ask whether this is designed to give the Department of Education and Science more time to explain how after decades of saying literacy was its priority, we find that a third of children in disadvantaged schools have severe reading problems. Despite that, we have no literacy strategy in the Department and it does not even include literacy as an output to be...

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: I do not believe it would be possible. The Department of Education and Science is one of the Departments whose Question Time is being moved in this motion and I believe it is significant that this is happening on a day when this appalling report comes to our attention.

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: While the House can tolerate the occasional use of a guillotine, we have reached a stage where even matters of major importance are not presented with the necessary sort of information to underpin them and there is not the sort of debate required. The guillotine is undermining proper legislation. In the United States today a White Paper on the regulation of the financial sector is being...

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: That is a very simplistic answer. The Tánaiste should take her job seriously. Question, "That the proposal for dealing with No. 24 be agreed to," put and declared carried.

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: In the past couple of days we saw a report that the details of 75,000 individual personal bank accounts were stolen in a computer held by Bord Gáis. These were not encrypted and it will be two weeks before the company will have contacted the individuals concerned. There are legal weaknesses here. Will the Government consider enacting Deputy Coveney's Private Members' legislation published...

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: That remains to be seen. It has been promised it in the past.

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: The Government has indicated it is supportive of legislative measures in this area. In light of the risk to 75,000 people that has been exposed, the Tánaiste should be examining this seriously. Fine Gael anticipated the problem well over a year ago.

Order of Business (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Perhaps Deputy Coveney will return to this issue. Is the Government preparing legislation on a bank levy to accompany the National Asset Management Agency Bill? We are informed that any deficit will be made up by way of a bank levy. Is that legislation being prepared?

Electric Vehicle Programme. (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the timeframe and structure for the rolling out of a charging infrastructure for electric cars agreed with the ESB; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24105/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of preschool providers and the number of pre-school places which have to date signed up to participate in the new Government sponsored early childhood scheme; the number in Dublin and the number outside of Dublin; if the proposed fee to be provided by the State has been analysed to establish the extent to which it covers the...

Written Answers — Irish Language: Irish Language (18 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of school places in gaelscoileanna at primary and at secondary level; his estimate of the proportion of children in sixth class primary gaelscoileanna who go on to gaelscoil at second level; if he has surveyed the percentage of children who would prefer to continue learning through the medium of Irish; if he is satisfied...

Defence Forces Recruitment. (23 Jun 2009)

Richard Bruton: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Defence the way the recruitment process will operate in 2009 following his recent decision to exclude the Reserve Defence Force from the recruitment moratorium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24798/09]